EP0636899A2 - Senseur doppler à micro-ondes - Google Patents

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EP0636899A2
EP0636899A2 EP94305008A EP94305008A EP0636899A2 EP 0636899 A2 EP0636899 A2 EP 0636899A2 EP 94305008 A EP94305008 A EP 94305008A EP 94305008 A EP94305008 A EP 94305008A EP 0636899 A2 EP0636899 A2 EP 0636899A2
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Stephen William Redfern
Peter Philip Blunden
Paul Andrew Tyson
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12—Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/22—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/24—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
    • H01Q1/247—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set with frequency mixer, e.g. for direct satellite reception or Doppler radar
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S13/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose nature or wavelength is irrelevant or unspecified
    • G01S13/02—Systems using reflection of radio waves, e.g. primary radar systems; Analogous systems
    • G01S13/50—Systems of measurement based on relative movement of target
    • G01S13/52—Discriminating between fixed and moving objects or between objects moving at different speeds
    • G01S13/56—Discriminating between fixed and moving objects or between objects moving at different speeds for presence detection
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S7/00—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
    • G01S7/02—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S13/00
    • G01S7/03—Details of HF subsystems specially adapted therefor, e.g. common to transmitter and receiver
    • G01S7/032—Constructional details for solid-state radar subsystems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03D—DEMODULATION OR TRANSFERENCE OF MODULATION FROM ONE CARRIER TO ANOTHER
    • H03D7/00—Transference of modulation from one carrier to another, e.g. frequency-changing
    • H03D7/12—Transference of modulation from one carrier to another, e.g. frequency-changing by means of semiconductor devices having more than two electrodes

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  • the invention relates to a Doppler microwave sensor, and in particular to a Doppler microwave sensor as used in a vehicle intruder alarm.
  • Microwave sensors are available, but up to now these have been relatively expensive and have produced only marginal improvement over the more common ultrasonic and infra-red types. They have also failed to meet official specifications regarding EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) and frequency stability.
  • FIG. 1 A conventional Doppler sensor arrangement is shown in Figure 1.
  • the output of a microwave oscillator 12 is fed to a transmit antenna 14 through a coupler 13, after being first amplified, if necessary, in an amplifier 15.
  • a return signal which may differ from the transmitted frequency where movement has occurred within the space illuminated by the transmitted signal, is received on a receive antenna 16 and fed to a mixer 17 where it is mixed with the coupled local oscillator signal 12 at an input 11 to generate a baseband IF signal on a line 18.
  • the IF signal on line 18 is then taken to a signal processing stage 19 which provides an indication, usually audible, that movement has taken place.
  • a Doppler microwave sensor characterised by comprising a mixer stage and a signal processing stage following the mixer stage, the mixer stage and the signal processing stage being mounted on a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board having a ground plane, in which is configured a slot antenna coupled to the mixer stage and to which an electrically conductive enclosure is electrically connected, the enclosure being disposed behind the slot antenna and enclosing the component parts of the mixer stage and signal processing stage.
  • the inventors have found that by employing a slot antenna in a PCB-mounted Doppler microwave sensor arrangement and screening the electronics of the sensor arrangement in a Faraday cage situated behind the slot antenna, Government EMC specifications may be readily met.
  • the only two mechanisms whereby electromagnetic interference may enter the alarm is, on the one hand, through the power supply and, on the other hand, through the slot antenna.
  • the power supply is arranged to be filtered, and since the slot antenna is a narrow-band system, the sensor of the invention is virtually immune to EM interference. The result is a significant improvement in the false-alarm rate of the sensor.
  • the beam pattern formed by the slot antenna may be modified to suit the volume of space illuminated by the transmitter oscillator by arranging for a dielectric lens to be disposed above the slot antenna.
  • the advantage of this measure is that the antenna pattern is confined to the internal volume of a vehicle in which the sensor is mounted, thereby further decreasing the likelihood of false alarms.
  • the dielectric lens may comprise a series of chevrons running one behind the other along an axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the slot antenna and substantially bisecting it. Not all the chevrons will be complete, since some in the series will come to a virtual point outside the area occupied by the lens.
  • the chevrons may be formed by raised portions of the material composing the lens. Although this is the preferred way of realising the lens, other ways may be equally possible.
  • the signal-processing stage may comprise a signal-amplifying means for amplifying the signal from the output of the mixer stage, a filtering means for filtering out signals other than a wanted low-frequency Doppler signal at an output of the amplifying means, a rectifying means fed from the filtering means and comparator means fed from the rectifying means, the comparator means being arranged to provide a sensor output signal when the signal at its input exceeds a given threshold.
  • the filtering means may be either a low-pass or a band-pass filter. If the latter is employed, the pass band must be centred on the frequencies of interest and must be of sufficient bandwidth to cover those frequencies.
  • the IF output of the mixer arrangement By coupling the IF output of the mixer arrangement to the above signal processing means, the presence of an intruder may be indicated to the owner of a vehicle in which the sensor is mounted.
  • the sensor output may be weighted by arranging for the threshold-detected output signal of the processing means to feed a diode pump, an indication of target movement being then provided only when a certain number of "events" (detections of movement) have been picked up by the sensor.
  • the mixer stage may be a mixer arrangement as described below.
  • a mixer arrangement characterised by comprising a self-oscillating mixer stage and an antenna connected to the self-oscillating mixer stage, wherein the antenna serves both as a transmit antenna and as a receive antenna.
  • the mixer stage may include a ceramic resonator for the stabilisation of the oscillator frequency.
  • a ceramic resonator in the mixer the oscillator frequency of the arrangement may be kept to very tight tolerances, something which is essential if such an arrangement is to be used as part of a Doppler microwave sensor.
  • the mixer stage may be set to run at a frequency of 2.45 GHz, which is one of two frequencies currently allocated by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for microwave sensors.
  • DTI Department of Trade and Industry
  • a ceramic resonator is used, since this acts as a parallel tuned circuit of very high Q, far higher than can be realised discretely at microwave frequencies, and can therefore maintain the tight frequency tolerances required. It is also physically small and rugged, being a small, silver-plated cylinder of high dielectric constant ceramic.
  • the self-oscillating mixer stage may comprise a bipolar transistor as the active element for sustaining oscillations.
  • a bipolar transistor as the active element, the cost of manufacturing the mixer arrangement may be kept low.
  • transistors exist which, while having a sufficiently high transition frequency (f T ) to allow oscillation to occur at 2.45 GHz, also have the requisite high-gain ( ⁇ ) at low operating currents, so that a mixer based on such a transistor may be incorporated in a Doppler sensor running off its own battery supply without rapidly depleting that supply.
  • the mixer stage may comprise a diode means for compensating for variations in the base-emitter voltage of the transistor with temperature. Such variations would, if left uncompensated, affect the frequency stability of the mixer arrangement.
  • the self-oscillating mixer stage preferably comprises a bipolar transistor, having a base, a collector and an emitter, and first and second potential levels and a reference potential level, the collector of the transistor being coupled to the first potential level by means of a first inductance and to the reference potential level by means of a first capacitance and the ceramic resonator in series, the base of the transistor being coupled by means of a second inductance to the mid-point of a bias potential divider connected between the first and second potential levels, and the emitter of the transistor being coupled to the second potential level by means of a resistance and a second capacitance in parallel, the diode means being connected in series with the lower half of the bias potential divider, the antenna being coupled to the emitter, and the output of the mixer arrangement being taken from the emitter or collector of the transistor.
  • the reference potential level and the first or second potential level may be substantially the same level, which may be nominally ground potential.
  • a vehicle characterised by comprising a Doppler microwave sensor as described above.
  • FIG. 2 The essential outline of a mixer arrangement 20 according to one aspect of the invention is shown in Figure 2.
  • An amplifying element 23 serves both as oscillator and mixer, so that two functions, transmission of the RF carrier and mixing of the return signal, are performed simultaneously in the same circuit element.
  • This is shown in conceptual form as an oscillator 24 feeding the antenna 22 with the carrier, at the same time acting as a local oscillator to be mixed in a mixer 25 with the RF return signal received on the same antenna 22.
  • the IF signal is output from the amplifying element 23 along a line 26.
  • Figure 3 shows a preferred realisation of this arrangement, in which the amplifying element is constituted by a bipolar transistor 32.
  • the transistor 32 acts as the active element in an oscillator oscillating at a frequency of 2.45 GHz.
  • the collector 33 of the transistor is coupled to a first, regulated, voltage rail 36 by means of an inductance 37 and to a reference potential point 46 (nominally ground) by means of a capacitance 39.
  • the voltage rail 36 is filtered by a suitable filtering means (not shown) in order to provide protection against the influence of stray electromagnetic fields.
  • the emitter of the transistor 32 is coupled to a second voltage rail 45, which may be at the same potential as the ground reference 46, by means of a capacitance 40 and a resistance 47 in parallel. Resistance 47, along with two resistances 41 and 42, forms a bias arrangement for establishing the correct bias conditions for the transistor 32, the mid-point of the resistor pair 41, 42 being taken to the base of transistor 32 by means of a further inductance 38
  • the emitter of the transistor 32 is also taken via a capacitance 48 to an antenna 22, from which the 2.45 GHz oscillator signal is radiated. Return signals are received also on the antenna 22 and are mixed with the carrier already present on the emitter, this carrier now acting as a local oscillator signal.
  • the mixing action of the arrangement is generated by the non-linear nature of the base-emitter junction of transistor 32, this non-linearity giving rise to signals at the sum and difference of the local oscillator and received signal frequencies.
  • the mixer output is taken along a line 50 via a coupling capacitor 44 to the input of the signal processing stage shown in Figure 4. Since the difference frequency (the Doppler frequency) at the mixer output is likely to be very low-frequency, i.e. in the range of ⁇ 1 - 25 Hz for the case of a person breaking into a car, a high-value coupling capacitor 44 is used to prevent signal loss due to the finite input impedance of the signal processing stage.
  • the first is the use of a resonating device in the branch connecting the collector to ground.
  • the resonating device used is a ceramic resonator 43, and this is placed in series with the capacitance 39.
  • the second stabilising technique is the use of diode compensation in the bias network of the transistor 32 to cancel out temperature-induced variations in the base-emitter voltage of the transistor. This is achieved by including a diode 49 in the biasing branch 41, 42, as shown in Figure 3.
  • the signal at the output of the mixer arrangement 20 consists of three components: the sum frequency f LO + (f C + f D) , the difference frequency f LO -(f C + f D ) and the carrier f C ,f LO being the local oscillator frequency, f C the carrier frequency and f D the Doppler frequency. Since the local oscillator and carrier frequencies are the same, the difference frequency consists of the Doppler frequency f D alone, and it is this frequency which is required to be isolated in the subsequent signal processing stage.
  • FIG. 4 shows the signal processing stage 60.
  • the signal processing stage 60 consists of an amplifier 62, an active low-pass filter 63, an active rectifier 64 and a comparator section 65.
  • the amplifier 62 amplifies the signal appearing on the emitter of transistor 32 in the mixer arrangement 20. Since it is only the low-frequency IF signal that is of interest, i.e. the Doppler frequency f D , a non-critical low-bandwidth component may be used for this part of the signal processing stage. Indeed, it is desirable to employ a low-frequency component here, since then the unwanted high-frequency components of the input signal on line 50 will be automatically partly filtered out.
  • the gain of the amplifier 62 is made variable so that various sizes of vehicle, within which the Doppler microwave sensor 50 is to be used, can be accommodated, bearing in mind that in a large vehicle movement far away from the sensor will give rise to Doppler return signals of low amplitude, and, further, that if the moving target is of small size, the amplitude of the return signal will be even lower.
  • the largely filtered-out HF signals at the output of the amplifier 62 are further filtered out by filter 63, which is realised as an active low-pass filter of, for example, the Sallen and Key type.
  • the LF signal at the output of the filter 63 is taken then to a rectifier 64, which is an active precision rectifier so as to be able to accommodate low-level signals at its input, and the output of the rectifier is subsequently compared in the comparator 68 with a reference value V ref .
  • V ref along with the gain of amplifier 62, determines the sensitivity of the sensor.
  • a second comparator 69 is triggered, ultimately producing an open-collector output signal on a line 67 via a transistor 70.
  • the comparator 69 operates as a diode pump, such that several triggering pulses are required on the input of this comparator before the collector of the output transistor 70 goes low. Where an indication of just a single alarm event is required, this can be taken from the output 66 of the first comparator 68.
  • the microwave sensor Since the microwave sensor is to be battery powered, the sensor employs micropower amplifiers, etc, to minimise current consumption. These micropower components normally require a split positive and negative power supply, and to enable them to be used with a single supply a pseudo-earth is used. This is achieved by configuring an operational amplifier (not shown) as a voltage follower with its non-inverting input set to half-rail via a resistor network; the low output impedance of the voltage follower forms the pseudo-earth.
  • an operational amplifier not shown
  • Figure 5(a) shows a plan view of the Doppler microwave sensor according to a further aspect of the invention.
  • the sensor is constructed on a printed circuit board (PCB) 80.
  • the PCB 80 has a ground plane 81 on its upperside and on its underside are mounted the electronics 82 (i.e. both the mixer and the processing stage) of the sensor.
  • a slot antenna 83 is introduced into the ground plane by the removal of a section of the plane itself and this slot antenna 83 is coupled to the mixer in the electronics 82 via the antenna 22 of the mixer.
  • Figure 5(b) gives an end view of the PCB arrangement along the line X-X in Figure 5(a).
  • Figure 5(b) shows the electronics 82 and the ground plane 81 with the etched-out section 83 forming the slot antenna. Also shown is a metal can 84.
  • Metal can 84 is electrically connected to the ground plane 81 and acts as a Faraday cage around the electronics, preventing electro-magnetic interference from entering the alarm.
  • a dielectric lens is placed over the slot antenna 83.
  • This lens is shown in Figure 6(a) in plan view and in Figure 6(b) in side elevation looking along the arrows 91.
  • the lens 90 is made of perspex or other dielectric material and consists of two half-chevrons 92, 93 set at an angle ⁇ to each other.
  • the half-chevrons 92, 93 comprise raised portions 94 and troughs 95 made in the dielectric material.
  • FIG. 7 the beam pattern for a slot antenna 83 without the lens is shown as the contour 87, while that for the antenna plus lens 90 is shown as the contour 88. (Contour 88 is shown somewhat exaggerated). The degree of eccentricity of the contour 88 is determined by the angle ⁇ , and this can be adjusted to suit the length/width ratio of different vehicles.
  • Figure 8 shows a preferred way of mounting the Doppler microwave sensor in a vehicle.
  • the sensor 100 is mounted in a car 110 to be protected in such a way that the metal floor 105 of the car is used as a reflector, the longitudinal axis of the slot antenna lying perpendicular to the plane of the paper.
  • the unit 100 is mounted centrally in the vehicle, for example behind the handbrake, approximately 20mm above the floor pan. The distance of the sensor 100 above the floor pan determines the efficiency of the sensor, and if this distance is significantly reduced, the detection range of the sensor will be reduced.
  • the sensitivity of the sensor is adjusted so that a coverage range of at least 2 metres is achieved, as shown in Figure 8.

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